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because the earth is big and you don't have a hard drive big enough to store it locally?
Yeah..? That's my point
Imagine you would save all YouTube videos on your hard drive. You don't have enough space for that (and time to download anyway). So the next best thing is to just stream those videos and parts you actually watch.
And this is kind of how this game works; it will only deliver those parts and download in the background (which is called streaming) what you currently visit and need. Because you don't have enough space on your drive.
High quality photograhy of the earth streams, you don't need to have it set to high quality
FS 2020 had an offline mode. You get much lower quality terrain and no live data like weather. I'm assuming it's the same with FS 2024.
I don't know if it has offline only mode.
mbtrhcs wasn't saying that you specifically don't have a big enough hard drive, they're saying that MS Flight Simulator is simply too big of a game to completely store on a player's computer.
MS Flight Simulator has a fairly accurate 3D model of the entire earth. Like, the whole thing. So it's constantly downloading the parts that the player is currently in, and deleting the parts that they are not in.
I hope there is a manual download function for your favorite areas to play them offline, that do not get deleted over time. Kind of how maps on your phone work, just with lot more requirements.
There is. It's called manual cache and it does exactly this:
https://i.imgur.com/MNmLqcb.jpeg
You can use as much storage space as you have available. There is no upper limit, as far as I know.